Severeal things were considered unlucky, like having one's picture taken in the cockpit, or to be wished 'Good luck' before takeoff. As pilots are strong believers in Murphy's law (things never go as you want them to), this would most likely lead to disaster. Therefore, the natural way of wishing good luck on somebody, would be to call the worst possible thing down on their heads.

It is similar to the Luftwaffe's "hals und beinbruch" ("Break neck and legs") or the German Navy's "Mast- und Stengebruch" ("Break masts and yards"), or when actor's wish each other "Break a leg" before they go on stage.

"So you got yourself a mahogany Spitfire? Doing bumph? Well, crash and burn, old chap!" ("So you got a ground job at a desk, filling out papers? (presumably away from the front line) Good luck, mate!")

A game played in a public place with a group of your friends. Mostly males who play this, but isn't limited to them. The object of the game is for your friends to pick out any random girl, and then you have to go up to her, and ask her if she wants to fuck.

Commonly used to see who has the most balls in the group of friends. Title relates to when you get to see your friend crash and burn after asking the girl.

Guys: See that one in the yellow shirt? She's standing next to her boyfriend. Go ask her.

When an error in program logic causes it to do totally random stuff for no apperently reason, not directly resulting in a crash, but often causing random stuff to appear on screen, sometimes with random noises comming from the speakers.

"Poping without pushing will almost always result in your program crashing and burning!"

"A simple error like using = instead of == can cause a C program to crash and burn."

"The poorly written driver caused the system to crash and burn with a pretty display of random colors."